Timeline (1921-1924)

Date	Event	Impact
1920-21	Tambov peasant rebellion increasing peasant anger strikes in the cities	Peasants angry about continued grain requisitions even after war
1921	Economy in ruins Grain production low Disease + famine were rampant Food shortages Ban on factions	workers angry about conditions and lives increased disillusion strikes had to be broken up by Cheka Once Central Committee decides, challenging party line = expulsion
March 1921	Kronstadt Rising naval officers in contact with angry workers mutiny calling for multi party democracy ‘Soviets without Bolsheviks’ NEP introduced by Lenin	Lenin described it as ‘flash that lit up reality’ made it clear that things had to change was accepted on temporary ground at Tenth Party Congress
1922	brisk trade food in markets rise of NEPmen sped recovery Other nations view NEP as turn from Communism Cheka → GPU Decree authorises seizure of Church goods	NEPmen thrived in ‘get rich quick’ society led to corruption and gaudy displays of luxury trade agreement with Germany GPU periodically arrested NEPmen to assure left that they were checking capitalistic tendencies war on Church underway
3 April 1922	Stalin appointed General Secretary
Spring 1922	pre-publication censorship introduced dozens of writers + scholars deported	systemic censorship convince intelligentsia against criticising government
December 1922- January 1923	Lenin writes his testament
1923	factory output rose by almost 200% from 1920 NEPmen handle ¾ of retail scissors crisis nomenklatura established	food prices dropped but industrial good remained high government acted and took peasant tax in cash rather than in kind promoted selling surplus grain create an elite of Bolshevik supporters in key positions
By 1924	large scale industry recovery underway highly centralised Bolshevik party`	trade agreement with Britain
January 1924	Lenin dies	leaving a power struggle